Example sentences of "but took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Durance had to say , Joseph never knew exactly because Maurin did not relay any of it but took issue with Durance himself . |
| 2 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
| 3 | He poured a measure into a shallow quaich , but took thought ; and held out to Lachlan the whole bottle . |
| 4 | Young Kirk suffered a nasty eye injury against the Canadian champion Dale Brown in a rousing light heavyweight final in Victoria , but took gold on a count-back after a five-five tie on punches landed . |
| 5 | Donated by a kind benefactor at some stage and affectionately known as " the old bomb " , it always seemed to get them to country open airs and cottage meetings but took exception to a trip to Sydney for a Congress . |
| 6 | He got it with the cruel bonus of a broken jaw but took Tyson the distance . |
| 7 | They did n't stay up all night , but took turns working any moment they could spare , hampered by Midnight 's lapses into delirium when he twisted and thrashed , making the job impossible . |
| 8 | She was considerably shaken by this exchange but took care not to show it . |
| 9 | The Emperor himself shared this view , but took pains to conceal it , because his ultimate designs for the rehabilitation of France in Europe envisaged a tripartite understanding with Britain and Russia . |
| 10 | The resulting diversions caused chaos in some areas , but took traffic away from others . |
| 11 | Your mother was a silly greedy girl — a gold-digger who wanted to marry above her station , but took fright at the last moment , without caring what hurt she bestowed . |
| 12 | The Kaiser banned the tango in Germany as ‘ immoral ’ , but took delivery of a thousand new Maxim machine-guns . |
| 13 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann 's models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe . |